The Resurrection Engine: Change Your Life With Tarot (Gated Spreads of Tarot Book 3)

One must look to the Vedanta system for a more lucid interpretation of the numbers 7, 8 and 9 although they correspond very closely with the Qabalistic ideas. In the Hindu analysis of existence the Rishis sages postulate three qualities: Sat, the Essence of Being itself; Chit, Thought, or Intellection; and Ananda usually translated Bliss , the pleasure experienced by Being in the course of events. This ecstasy is evidently the exciting cause of the mobility of existence. It explains the assumption of imperfection on the part of Perfection.

The Absolute would be Nothing, would remain in the condition of Nothingness; therefore, in order to be conscious of its possibilities and to enjoy them, it must explore these possibilities. One may here insert a parallel statement of this doctrine from the document called The Book of the Great Auk to enable the student to consider the position from the standpoint of two different minds. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the memory of all his adventures in combination. By the way, that atom, fortified with memory, would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory.

Therefore, by the lapse of time and by virtue of memory, a thing could become something more than itself; thus, a real development ispossible. One can then see a reason for any element deciding to go through this series of incarnations, because so, and only so, can he go; and he suffers the lapse of memory which he has during these incarnations, because he knows he will come through unchanged. This is also the only explanation of how a Being could create a world in which War, Evil, etc.

Evil is only an appearance, because like "Good" it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has to p. If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural. These correspond to the numbers 9, 8 and 7. The first idea of reality, as known by the mind, is therefore to conceive of the Point as built up of these previous nine successive developments from Zero.

Here then at last is the number Ten. In the Qabalah, they are called "Sephiroth", which means "Numbers".

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As will be seen later, each number has a significance of its own; each corresponds with all phenomena in such a way that their arrangement in the Tree of Life, as shown in the diagrams pp. These ten numbers are represented in the Tarot by the forty small cards. This question involves another aspect of the system of development. What was the first mental process? Obliged to describe Nothing, the only way to do so without destroying its integrity was to represent it as the union of a Plus Something with an equivalent Minus Something.

One may call these two file: But although the Father and Mother can make a perfect union, thereby returning to Zero, which is a retrogression, they can also go forward into Matter, so that their union produces a Son and a Daughter. The idea works out in practice as a method of describing how the union of any two things produces a third thing which is neither of them.

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The simplest illustration is in Chemistry. If we take hydrogen gas and chlorine gas, and pass an electric spark through them, an explosion takes place, and hydrochloric acid is produced. Here we have a positive substance, which may be called the Son of the marriage of these elements, and is an advance into Matter.

The Resurrection Engine: Change Your Life With Tarot (Gated Spreads of Tarot)

But also, in p. In the language of the alchemists, these phenomena were classified for convenience under the figure of four "elements". Fire, the purest and most active, corresponds to the Father; Water, still pure but passive, is the Mother; their union results in an element partaking of both natures, yet distinct from either, and this they called 'Air". One must constantly remember that the terms used by ancient and medieval philosophers do not mean at all what they mean nowadays.

The ductability of iron is a watery quality. The word "element" does not mean a chemical element; it means a set of ideas; it summarises certain qualities or properties. It seems hardly possible to define these terms in such a way as to make their meaning clear to the student. He must discover for himself by constant practice what they mean to him. It does not even follow that he will arrive at the same ideas. The moon that A. In this case, the difference is so infinitesimal that it does not exist in practice; yet there is a difference.

Their experience will coincide only in the matter of a few well-known pictures. Besides this, their minds are essentially different in many other ways. There is no right or wrong about any matter whatsoever. Yet, weight is but a function of the curvature of the "space. The scientific description of an object is universally true; and yet it is not completely true for any single observer.

The phenomenon called the Daughter is ambiguous. It has been explained above as the spiritual ingredient in the result of the marriage of the Father and the Mother; but this is only one interpretation. They were connected with the three qualities of Being, Knowledge and Bliss, previously mentioned. The alchemists had three similar principles of energy, of which all existing phenomena are composed: Sulphur, Mercury and Salt.

This Sulphur is Activity, Energy, Desire; Mercury is Fluidity, Intelligence, the power of Transmission; Salt is the vehicle of these two forms of energy, but itself possesses qualities which react on them. The student must keep in his mind all these tripartite classifications. In some cases, one set will be more useful than otheis.

For the moment, concentrate on the Fire, Water, Air series. These elements are represented in the Hebrew alphabet by the letters Shin, Mem and Aleph. The Qabalists call them the Three Mother Letters. In this particular group, the three elements concerned are completely spiritual forms of pure energy; they can only manifest in sensible experience by impinging upon the senses, crystallising out in a fourth element which they call "Earth", represented by the last letter of the alphabet, Tau.

This, then, is another quite different interpretation of the idea of the Daughter, which is here considered as a pendant to the Triangle. It is the number Ten suspended from the 7, 8, 9 in the diagram. The Qabalists, devising the Tarot, then proceeded to make pictures of these extremely abstract ideas of Father, Mother, Son and Daughter, and they called them King, Queen, Prince and Princess. It is confusing, but they were also called Knight, Queen, King and p. Sometimes, too, the Prince and Princess are called "Emperor" and "Empress".

The reason for this confusion is connected with the doctrine of the Fool of the Tarot, the legendary Wanderer, who wins the King's daughter, a legend which is connected with the old and exceedingly wise plan of choosing the successor to a king by his ability to win the princess from all competitors. Frazer's Golden Bough is the authority on this subject.

It has been thought better, for the present pack, to adopt the term "Knight", "Queen", "Prince" and "Princess", to represent the series Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, because the doctrine involved, which is extraordinarily complex and difficult, demands it. The Father is "Knight" because he is represented as riding on a borse.

It may make it more clear to describe the two main systems, the Hebrew and the Pagan, as if they were and had always been concrete and separate. The Hebrew system is straightforward and irreversible; it postulates Father and Mother from whose union issue Son and Daughter. It is only later philosophical speculation to derive the Father-Mother Dyad from a Unity manifest, and later still to seek the source of that Unity in Nothing. This is a concrete and limited scheme, crude, with its causeless Beginning and its sterile End.

The Pagan system is circular, self-generated, self-nourished, self-renewed. It is a wheel on whose rim are Father-Mother-Son-Daughter; they move about the motionless axis of Zero; they unite at will; they transform one into another; there is neither Beginning nor End to the Orbit; none is higher or lower than another. Difficult as this is, at least one very desirable result has been attained: It also explains why there are four suits. The four suits are named as follows: The student Wili notice this interplay and counterchange of the number 4.

It is also important for him to notice that even in the tenfold arrangement, p. The Tree of Life can be divided into four planes: This division corresponds to the analysis of Man. The number I is his spiritual essence, without quality or quantity; the numbers 2 and 3 represent his creative and trausmissive powers, his virility and his intelligence; the numbers 4 to 9 describe his mental and moral qualities as concentrated in his human personality; the number 6, so to speak, is a concrete elaboration of the number I; and the number 10 corresponds to Earth, which is the physical vehicle of the previous nine numbers.

The names of these parts of the soul are: These four planes correspond once more to the so-called "Four Worlds", to understand the nature of which one should refer, with all due reservations, to the Platonic system. The number I is Atziluth, the Archetypal World; but the number 2, as being the dynamic aspect of the number I, is the Practical attribution. The number 3 is Briah, the Creative World in which the Will of the Father takes shape through the Conception of the Mother, just as the spermatozoon, by fertilizing the ovum, makes possible the production of an image of its parents.

The numbers 4 to 9 include Yetzirah, the Formative World, in which an intellectual image, an appreciable form of the idea, is produced; and this mental image becomes real and sensible in the number 10, Assiah, the Material World. It is by going through all these confusing and sometimes seemingly contradictory attributions, with unwearying patience and persistent energy, that one comes at the end to a lucid understanding, to an understanding which is infinitely clearer than any intellectual interpretation could possibly be.

This is a fundamental exercise in the way to initiation. If one were a shallow rationalist, it would be quite easy to pick holes in all these attributions and semi-philosophical hypotheses, or near-hypotheses; but it is also quite simple to prove by mathematics that it is impossible to hit a golf ball. Hitherto, the main theme of this essay has been the Tree of Life, in its essence the Sephiroth. It is now proper to consider the relations of the Sephiroth with each other. It will be explained in due course how it is that these correspond to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

It will be file: Notably, there is an equilateral triangle, which one would think would be a natural basis for the Operations of Philosophy, consisting of the numbers 1,4 and 5. But there are no lines joining 1and 4, or 1and 5. This is not an accident. Nowhere in the figure is there an erect equilateral triangle, although there are three equilateral triangles with the apex downwards.

This is because of the original formula "Father, Mother, Son", which is three times repeated in a descending scale of simplicity and spirituality. The number 1is above these triangles, because it is an integration of Zero and depends from the triple veil of the Negative. Now the Sephiroth, which are emanations of the number 1, as already shown, are things-in-themselves, in almost the Kantian sense. The lines joining them are Forces of Nature, of a much less complete type; they are less abstruse, less abstract.

If it does not equal 0, it is not an equation. And so, whenever any symbol loses importance in one place in the Qabalah, it gains in another. The Court cards and small cards form the skeletal structure of the Tarot in its principal function as a map of the Universe. To what symbols are they attributed? They cannot be related identically with any of the essential ideas, because that place is taken by the cards from I to They cannot represent primarily the Father, Mother, Son, Daughter complex in its fulness, because the Court cards have already taken that position.

They are attributed as follows: There is a slight clotting or overlapping in this arrangement. The letter Shin has to do duty for both Fire and Spirit, in very much the same way as the number 2 partakes of the nature of the number I; and the letter Tau represents both Saturn and the element of Earth.

In these difficulties there is a doctrine. But one cannot dismiss these twenty-two letters thus casually. The stone that the builders rejected becomes the head of the corner. These twenty-two cards acquire a personality of their own: It would be quite wrong to say that they represent a complete universe. They seem to represent certain rather curious phases of the universe. They do not seem essential factors in the structure of the universe. They change from time to time in their relation to current events.

A glance at the list of their titles seems to show no longer the strictly philosophical and scientific spirit of austere classification that is found in the other cards. There leaps at us the language of the Artist. Obviously these are not plain, straightforward symbolic representations of the signs, elements and planets concerned.

They are rather hieroglyphs of peculiar mysteries connected with each. One may begin to suspect that the Tarot is not a mere straightforward representation of the Universe in the impersonal way of the system of the Yi King. The Tarot is beginning to look like Propaganda. It is as if the Secret Chiefs of the Great Order, which is the guardian of the destinies of the human race, had wished to put forward certain particular aspects of the Universe; to establish certain especial doctrines; to declare certain modes of working, proper to the existing political situations.

They differ; somewhat as a literary composition differs from a dictionary. It has been very unfortunate, but quite unavoidable, to be p. It may make it simpler to proceed to summarize the above statements. Here is a simple statement of the plan of the Tree of Life. The numbers, or Things-in-Themselves, are ten, successive emanations from the triple veil of the Negative. The small cards numbered I to 10 correspond to the Sephiroth. These cards are shown in fourfold form, because they are not the pure abstract numbers, but particular symbols of those numbers in the universe of manifestation, which is, for convenience, classified under the figure of four elements.

The Court cards represent the elements themselves, each element divided into four sub-elements. For convenience, here follows a list of these cards: Here are one or two examples. The number 6 is the human personality of a man; the number 3 is his spiritual intuition. Therefore, it is natural and significant that the influence of the 3 upon the 6 is that of the intuitional or inspirational voice. It is the illumination of the mind and the heart by the Great Mother. Consider again the card joining the number I to the number 6. This card is called "The High Priestess", and is attributed to the Moon.

The card represents the Heavenly Isis. It is a symbol of complete spiritual purity; it is initiation in its most secret and intimate form, descending upon the human consciousness from the ultimate divine consciousness. Looked at from below, it is the pure and unwavering aspiration of the man to the Godhead, his source. It will be proper to enter more fully into these matters when dealing separately with the cards in turn. From the foregoing it will be clear that the Tarot illustrates, first of all, the Tree of Life in its universal aspect, and secondly, the particular comment illustrating that phase of the Tree of Life which is of peculiar interest to those persons charged with the guardianship of the human race at the particular moment of the production of any given authorised pack.

It is therefore proper for those guardians to modify the aspect of the pack when it seems to them good to do so. The traditional pack has itself been subjected to numerous modifications, adopted for convenience. The card originally called "The Hierophant", representing Osiris as is shown by the shape of the tiara became, in the Renaissance period, the Pope.

The High Priestess came to be called "Pope Joan", representing a certain symbolic legend which circulated among initiates, and became vulgarised in the fable of a Female Pope. More important still, "The Angel", or "The Last Judgment", represented the destruction of the world by fire. Its hieroglyph is, in a way, prophetic, for when the world was destroyed by fire on 21st March, ,1 one's attention was inevitably called to the similarity of this card to the Stele' of Revealing.

The art of progress is to keep intact the Eternal; yet to adopt an advance-guard, perhaps m some cases almost revolutionary, position in respect of such accidents as are subject to the empire of Time. The Sun is a star. Around him revolve a number of bodies called file: This theory does not enter directly into the Tarot, but it must be mentioned to help to clear up a certain confusion which is about to complicate the question.

Early astronomers calculated that the Sun took days to go round the Zodiac. This was a closely guarded secret of the learned; so they concealed it in the divine name Mithras, which adds up, according to the Greek Convention M I Th. When the others found this out they p. In this there is still an error of not quite six hours; so that, in the course of centuries, the Calendar kept slipping. It did not assume its present form until the time of Pope Gregory.

The Point of all this, that they divided the Circle of the Zodiac into degrees, is that this is a convenient basis for calculation. Each angular measure of 10 degrees was called a Decanate. Of these there are thus thirty-six, dividing each Sign of the Zodiac into three sections. It was supposed that the influence of the Sign was very swift and fierce in the first Decan, powerful and balanced in the second, spiritualised and deciduous in the third.

One of the most important doctrines of the Ancients was that of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. Man is himself a little Universe; he is a minute copy of the big Universe. This argument was, of course, worked backwards; so the characteristics above given of the qualities of the Three Decans in the sign were probably due to an analogy with the course of a man's life. The above remarks constitute a fairly complete idea of the arbitrary, or mostly arbitrary, presentation of the Cosmos by the Ancients.

First of all, the division into Four Elements. These Elements pervade everything. They would argue something like this about the Sun. They would say that he was principally Fire, for obvious reasons; but he would have also in him the Airy quality of Mobility. The Watery part would be shown by his power to create Images; and the Earthy part, his immense Stability.

Similarly, of a Serpent, they would call his power of Death fiery; his Swiftness, airy; his undulatory motion, Watery; and his habit of life, Earthy. These descriptions are obviously quite inadequate; they have td be filled up by attributing planetary qualities and zodiacal qualities to all objects. Thus, the Bull in the Zodiac is an Earthy sign, and this is the central sign of the three through which the Sun passes during Spring.

But the bovine nature is also gentle; wherefore they said that Venus rules the Sign of Taurus. The Cow, moreover, is the principal milk-giving animal, so they made her the Great Motherp. They represented this idea by saying that the Moon is "exalted" in Taurus-that is, that she exerts the most beneficent aspect of her influence when she is in that sign. It is confusing at first, but most instructive and illuminating when the principle is thoroughly assimilated, to note how all these Elements subdivide and coalesce.

One can only reach the comprehension of any one of these Symbols by making a composite picture of it, one composed of all the others in varying proportion. Thus each of the planets gives a certain portion of its influence to any object. This habit of thought leads to an understanding of the Unity of Nature with its proper and spiritual exaltation which could bardly be attained in any other way; it produces an internal harmony which ends in an acceptance of Life and of Nature.

It is now almost time to analyse and define the traditional characteristics of these symbols; but perhaps it would be better, first of all, to build on a sure foundation by consideration of the number Two, which hitherto has not been taken into account. There are only two operations possible in the Universe, Analysis and Synthesis. To divide, and to unite. If anything is to be changed, either one must divide one object into two parts, or add another unit to it.

This principle lies at the basis of all scientific thought and work. The first thought of the man of science is Classification, Measurement. He says, "This oak-leaf is like that oakleaf; this oak-leaf is unlike this beech-leaf". Until one has grasped this fact, one has not begun to understand Scientific Method. The Ancients were fully cognisant of this idea; The Chinese, in particular, based their whole philosophy on this primary division of the original Nothing.

One must begin with Nothing; otherwise the question would arise, file: These then combine in varying p. This Chinese arrangement is thus tenfold, and has been shown to be admirably equivalent to the System which has been here examined. The Chinese have thus sixty-four principal symbols as against the thirty-two of the Tree; but the Qabalists have a concatenation of symbols which is capable of very subtle interpretation and handling.

It is also better fitted to describe the internal relations of its Elements. Moreover, each can be multiplied or subdivided at will. This figure must be studied very carefully, for it is the basis of the whole system on which the Tarot is based. It is quite impossible to give a complete explanation of this figure, because for one thing it is quite universal. Therefore it cannot mean the same to any one person as to any other.

A's universe is not B's universe. If A and B are sitting opposite each other at table, A sees the right side of the lobster, and B the left. If they stand side by side and look at a star, the angle is different; although this difference is infinitesimal, it exists.

But the Tarot is the same for all in the same way in which any scientific fact or formula is the same for all. It is most important to remember that the facts of science, though universally true in the abstract, are still not precisely true for any one observer, because even if the observation of any common object is made by two people 1 The present author discovered this fact during his study-still incomplete-of the Yi King.

This fact is to be emphasised, because one must not take the Tree of Life as a dead fixed formula. It is in a sense an eternal pattern of the Universe, just because it is infinitely elastic; and it is to be used as an instrument in one's researches into Nature and her forces. It is not to be made an excuse for Dogmatism. The Tarot should be learnt as early in life as possible; a fulcrum for memory and a schema for mind. It should be studied constantly, a daily exercise; for it is universa]ly elastic and grows in proportion to the use inteHigently made of it.

Thus it becomes a most ingenious and excellent method of appreciating the whole of Existence. It seems probable that the Qabalists who invented the Tree of Life were inspired by Pythagoras, or that both he and they derived their knowledge from a common source in higher antiquity. In any case, both schools agree upon one fundamental postulate, which is as follows: Ultimate Reality is best described by Numbers and their interplay.

It is interesting to note that modern Mathematical Physics has been finally driven to some similar assumption. Further, the attempt to describe Reality by a single definite terin has been abandoned. Modern thought conceives Reality under the image of a ring of ten ideas, such as Potential, Matter, and so on. Each term has no meaning in itself; it can only be understood in terms of the others.

This is exactly the conclusion which appears earlier in this essay, with regard to the way in which the planets, elements and signs were all dependent on each other, and composed of each other. But the further attempt to reach Reality led the Qabalists to sum up the qualities of these rather vague and literary ideas by referring them all to the numbers of the decimal scale. Numbers, then, are the nearest approach to Reality which is shown in this system.

The number 4, for instance, is not so specially the result of adding one to three, or squaring two, or halving eight. It is a thing in itself, with all sorts of moral, sensible, and intellectual qualities. One may now proceed to imagine any point in this "light", to select it for observation; the fact of doing so makes it Positive.

This gives the number I, which is called Kether, the Crown. The other numbers arise by reason of the necessity of thought as explained in the following table: Positive yet indefinable, 2. The Abyss-between Ideal and Actual. Defined by 3 co-ordinates: Motion time He', the Womb; for only through Motion and in Time can events occur. The Point's Idea of Bliss Ananda. It will be seen from the above that by means of these ten positive 1 It is intentionai to repeat here, in other language, the ideas explained already in this essay.

So far, the argument has been erected on a rigid, mathematical basis, with only the slightest tincture of philosophy to give it form. But it is at this point that, for the purpose of describing the objects Thought and Sense, one is compelled to join hands with the trologers.

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The problem now is: This is partly a matter of experience, partly tradition derived from older experience. It would be unwise to discard tradition with complete contempt, because all thinking is bound by the laws of the mind itself, and Mind has been formed rough thousands of years of evolution in each man by the thoughts of his ancestors.

The cells of all living brains are just as much the children of the great thinkers of the past as the development of the organs and limbs. There are very few people today who have heard of Plato and Aristotle. Not one in a thousand, perhaps ten thousand, of those have ever read either of them, even in translations. But there are also very few people whose thinking, such as it is, is not conditioned by the ideas of those two men.

In the Tree of Life, therefore, is found the first attempt to conct the Ideal with the Actual. The Qabalists say, for example, that the number 7 contains the idea of Venus, and the number 8 that of Mercury, that the connecting path between I and 6 refers to the moon, and that between 3 and 6 to the Sign of Gemini.

Then what is the true meaning, in the category of the Real, of these planets and signs? Here again one is faced with the impossibility exact definition, because the possibilities of research are infinite; also, at any moment in any research, the one idea merges into the her and clouds the exact definition of the images.

But this, of urse, is the objective. These are all blind steps on the way to the reat Light: The beginning of this work is, however, easy enough. One reuires no more than elementary classical knowledge. Roughly taking, for a start, the natures of the planets are described by those of the gods after whom the actual bodies in heaven were named, p. The same is true, to a less extent, of the Signs of the Zodiac. There is not so much information available about their natures; but it is file: The individual Fixed Stars do not enter into the system of the Tarot.

In it is little place for abstract ideas. The subject of the book-the Tarot is called The Book of Thoth or Tahuti-is the influence of the Ten Numbers and the Twenty-two Letters on man, and his best methods of manipulating their forces. There is there fore no mention of the Three Veils of the Negative, which was dis cussed in the description of the Tree of Life.

The description begins with the "small cards", numbered I to These are divided into four suits according to the four elements. It pertains to Kether, and purports to represent the first positive manifestation of the idea of Fire. The 2 pertains to Chokmah. But here is already no more the simplicity of the idea of fire.

An Idea in action or in manifestation is no more the pure Idea. This card is attributed to the first Decan of the fiery sign Aries, which is ruled by Mars; this, then, gives the idea of a violent and aggressive force. The card is therefore called the Lord of Dominion. This progressive degradation of the idea of Fife goes on increasing through the suit. Each successive card becomes less ideal and more actual, increasingly so until, with the number 6 which corresponds to the Sun, the centre of the whole system, the fiery idea resurges, balanced; hence pure, although complex.

Beyond this, the force is beginning to expend itself, or to spiritualise itself, in the cards of the Decan of Sagittarius. But the best fixation of the fiery force is found in the 9, which number is the foundation of the structure of the Tree of life. Thus the card is called The Lord of Strength. But in the 10, showing complete materialisation and nimiety, the effect of fire is pushed to its extreme limit. Its death is impending, but it reacts against this as best it can by appearing as the Lord of Oppression, formidable on the surface, but with the seeds of decay already sprouting.

The above summary can easily be applied by the student to the other suits. The Court cards are sixteen in number, four to each suit. There is thus a subdivision of each element into its own system. These cards have many manifestations in natural phenomena. Thus, the Knight of Wands has the attribution of Aries, and represents swift violence of onset, the lightning flash. But the airy part of Fire is sympathetic with Leo, the steady force of energy, the Sun.

I,astly, in the watery part of Fire, the harmony is with Sagittarius, which shows the fading, spiritualised reflection or translucence of the image of Fire, and this suggests the Rainbow. See table of the Triplicities of the Zodiac. The Twenty-two Houses of Wisdom, Or: The Twenty-two Trumps of the Tarot. Twenty-two is the number of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It is the number of the Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah.

These paths are the paths which join the ten numbers on the figure called the Tree of Life. Why are there twenty-two of them? Because that is the number of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and one letter goes to each path. House or Key, in Ancient Egyptian. Egyptian God of Wisdom, magick, Science, also Illusion.

The Hindu and Scandinavian Gods corresponding are debased forms. Why should these paths be arranged on the Tree in the way that the diagram shows? Why should there not be paths connecting the numbers 2 and 5 and the numbers 3 and 4? One cannot answer any of these questions. One knows only that this was the conventional arrangement adopted by whoever it was that devised the Tarot.

What is worse, it seems very confusing, very annoying; it shakes one's faith in these great sages. But at least file: The letters of the Hebrew alphabet are twenty-two. But there are four Elements, not three. Or, including the element of Spirit an important matter to initiates , there are five. There are therefore two letters of the alphabet which have to do double duty. The element of Fire is very close kin to the idea of Spirit; so the letter Shin, belonging to Fire, may be taken to mean Spirit as well.

There is a special reason why this should be so, although it only applies in later ages, since the introduction of the dognia that Spirit rules the four elements, and the formation of the "Pentagram of Salvation" connected with the Hebrew word IHShVH, Yeheshuah. With regard to Earth, it was considered adequate to make the letter Tau, belonging to Saturn, correspond also to Earth. These additions are clear evidence that the Tarot took definite and arbitrary steps to assert the new discovery in Magick some two thousand years ago; for no system is more rigid than a Hebrew system.

And the system of the Sepher Yetzirah is the deepest rooted of all the elements of the Hebrew system, the most dogmatic of them all. The Tarot is justified not by faith, but by works. The departures from the original bone-dry Qabalah have been justified by experience. The point raised above about the way in which the paths are selected to join certain numbers and not others, is found to express important doctrines connected with the facts of initiation. It must always be p. The answer is that the li is a measure of the time of marching, not of miles.

The difference of calculation jnforms one that Pu Peng is a long way up the hill. It is very much the same with the Tarot. All phenomena contain their origin. That is what stops the mind. In Tarot they look very demure. My depressions with this and that are an obscuring veil, behind which stands the Archangelic Fact with its wondrous music.

When I cannot integrate the keynote, it oppresses rather than uplifts. Key 11 in the centre is the attunement. The resonance is found when mind is at rest. So of course I can. Many messages are in this new reading. The Sun and Moon — the wolf-and-dog shadow the children. It demonstrates that the veil by which the human surface and its political sores is generally interpreted, is an incomplete and erratic picture.

I am able to see this because I live in a stable environment, not in a refugee concentration camp or a bad marriage. Again as I so often repeat, I must honour what is Real, and not bury my nose in newspaper. So Mr T went to tea with the Queen …? I am the human condition. Make Reality my aim! In the Sun key the children play: The Guardians appear to us in these different ways. Tarot Key 18 is the Moon vibration itself, in the deck. She holds the lifted Sword, the Word, in her right. To her right is the sound of one hand clapping. To her left is the thunderclap. At her feet is the human landscape cleansed with rain: Above her head the Weather making angel twixt Sun and Moon … awakens the lion and eagle from the mud.

The Queen of Justice sits likewise at the heart of the Tarot Tableau see above with its interwoven sequence of Tetragrams. In my concern for my old friend, I stumbled on this heavenly order … the Guardians of his soul, the Tree and the teaching. Justice is a Karmic goad. Her pressure is painful until alignment is slipped into. In this Reflection she midpoints horizontally 20, 11, 16 the keys of Resurrection and Catastrophe. Give to her my centre of gravity as a human mite, and calm the mental waters.

In the Vertical sequence 14, 11, 6 , the garden is watered and fired, and grows up into conscious Life and Love. Rather than label the Eternal Life, rediscover it. Gradually the resting-place dawns. Elementally the four Archangels are: Draw water from the well. Cultivate optimism — the higher wavelength — in the face of pessimist default. Make your thinking different! For me this felt nice at the beginning, but it deteriorates and eventually dies into political badges. Best not to wear it, but to find it. To label and wear is the natural desire for security.

The Great Work only needs watering with the continual art of discovery. Identifying with any teaching exclusively becomes a badge and makes dying difficult. We must transmit the good NEWS but paradoxically keep it silent. This seems to be my general task, as I can write it, but not so easily speak it.

All things decay and are reborn. Decay in our earthly terms is painful, but as the dross dissolves, there is joy. Our debt may be forgiven upstream by invoking a higher cosmic currency of the same Law. Saturn — alchemical lead — is exalted in Libra, whose ruler is Venus. The Libran element is Air: Paul Foster Case suggests ten-minute periods for this practice: Ramana Maharshi counselled to be gently conscious with the breath, like a rider guiding a horse; the rise and fall in the heart.

We are a School of the Soul. We are both Capricorn — gate keepers to the field of asphodel. Get ice-cream on your face — pick up, brush down, look to the Archangelic Guardians for perspective and try again. Yesterday I told him the hardest workers in life are those who are just born and those who are going to die: As for my personal Yesodic monster — it is fear and anxiety, a thin pollution-miasm through my being, about whether I can fit in and get to places during the day.

Sublimation is a process of selective elimination: Discard wasteful arguments and controversial topics. Is this not marvellous with the Tarot reflection? And Ruach the Spirit or divine breath is the Rower of the seas. I feel stronger now. I felt weakly identified with situations and the weather and the glaring miasm which humankind believes itself to be in.

The daily Underground travel is noisy and exhausting. In the morning here, the well fills up again with wonder. I love these Archangels yesterday , and wonder if they demonstrate an incarnation and its rise and fall of embodied life? The breath of life of course is that. I find this like any practice not easy to perform formally, but do often remember to come into solar plexus present and breathe consciously a couple of times. Last night I dreamed I embraced my cher ami in Trieste and rested my head on his right shoulder.

He was extraordinarily broad, earthy, firm, warm and trusted. He wore soft dark-brown leather slippers, old ones with a bit of worn fur trim. They were comfortable and much wider than his not large feet. The ordinary human engine does not often notice them and seeks bigger signals perhaps. In the crucible, the nuance is the ineffable nous of Alchemy: I saw the other day a washbasin fixed to an outside wall for gardeners: I love the feel of it.

Alchemy is the profound treasury of the heart of things: The natural life-breath as instructed by Paul Foster Case is soft and joyous acceptance. Today I went Castling — indoor rock climbing in North London. It was hot and I was tired, but I managed to do that Green traverse a few times — not fluently, but with better balance. I just potter around, doing the same little climbs and overhangs again and again — by now needing proper outdoor rocks and slabs to dance with.

The core stability feeling improves. Core stability is in the bones, a balanced flow of movement taking and transferring fleshy weight and stretch. Use not brute strength but the movement. Alchemy in solitary laboratory does not glow with life, like alchemy which bristles with human oddity, relationship and paradox out of doors and every day. An alchemist lives and lurches along potential stress and pain, occasionally balancing beautifully, the thread.

That sums up my way of life. The thread is a musical string, sometimes at perfect pitch. May not be used for commercial purposes. May be used and shared for non-commercial means with credit to Jane Adams and a link to the web address https: This is the second of three posts. Its Hebrew letter PEH symbolises the mouth. Two of these Keys specify the Sound of God: Thought collapses into Source. An oracle is a cosmic vocal cord through which a situation under review resonates in unison with many others.

That which seems to part our fields unites them. Part the waves and kiss the lips! Each situation has a mouth which speaks if it is heard. My Hanging Man tumbles to hear what is inside the Tower. The Tower is an inverted well. Inside the Tower, as butterfly in chrysalis, is the woman by the well in Key 17 her sign is Aquarius: We as humankind move through this process individually and collectively. Discovery is sanctified through the open honesty of the Lovers: They nourish but do not impinge.

The interior Wisdom of Solomon shines through the cracking crust of fancy. The Aquarian dispensation no longer enthrones Messiah as an individual example. This outgrown concept breaks down throughout the world, and thus the present chaos, pain, tension and pollution of faith in the outer crust. Messiah is a collective point of omnipresence. Messiah occupies a certain frequency or waveband in our consciousness. No impure ambition can find this seat. The supreme sacrifice of individuality was made.

Hallowed in the heart, their spiritual strength gestates a living reality. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep. Cliffs of Fall — two versions. The first of the two versions above was the initial sketch. The original painting this happened with, got lost, and i only have a poor photo of it. The above version was a reconstruction of the original. Let us form an alchemical vessel, a Grail cup. The Firing of the Tower is transformative heat — the bellows and the oven. In alchemy the bellows are the breath; the oven is our body, the temple at work.

The Tower which devastates the ignorant signals a gentle presence: You, we, I originate from a Solar star; from galactic stars: We know the way Home. In my experience, whenever I see and walk the Tower path, I hear the speech of the illumined Maestri, of Master R, in ways in which my interior is encoded to receive it. I hear it unexpectedly. The media belief system and its marketing puts up a colossal resistance to it. In the cosmic clock, this is natural.

As human species we are designed to move as osmosis through the tree to solar light: The Gene Keys transmission says of the fear-based mono-celled outlook on life: However, quantum biology has discovered something very remarkable that directly challenges this. The brain of the cell does not reside within the nucleus after all, but in the cellular membrane which provides an interface with the environment.

In a nutshell, this means that life is designed to be cooperative rather than competitive. This new biological view makes enormous sense when considered alongside quantum physics, which holds that all of life is interrelated and holistic rather than separative. In the old view, we humans are the victim of our selfish genes; in the new view there are no victims, only a huge interconnected and interdependent cosmos …. We know that the membrane allows the single cell to respond to its environment. This is the foundational principle of quantum biology, and it is regarded as nothing short of heresy in the face of current mainstream biological dogma.

Beyond selfishness and chaos lies cooperation and innovation. Innovation only occurs when you truly begin to think for yourself … which is relatively uncommon. In order to be truly innovative, you have to attain a very high frequency that allows you to see beyond the collective worldview. Look carefully, to discover it within. The term indeed refers to a higher evolution of celestial beings or ascended masters, but these beings are not separate from us.

They are our higher nature personified. As your higher bodies transmute your lower instincts and emotions, so you come into the frequency field of their higher harmony. This field draws you into itself and gradually transforms your cellular DNA into its highest mode of functioning. We now live in the time of … unprecedented planetary change. As the awakening becomes progressively more widespread, the awakened higher bodies of individuals will come into a heightened communal harmony that quickens the frequency of the whole of humanity.

Eventually the Illumined will assimilate all human beings into its ranks and humankind will finally experience itself as a single unified cosmic being. This Tarot oracle see top of page is a direct response to a fight which broke out in the street, and my being brought to witness the same party in a different spot, a week later. What is my work within it? I am a bee. I extracted and extract honey. What is here is elsewhere. The event felt like a trigger, a turning point.

But that is on the accustomed surface. My role in this? Allow Consciousness making waves with the Guardians to see through shambles. The priestess of Isis is the breath of the sea at night. An I Ching drawing: The activity flowing from it is self explanatory — watch what takes shape following the oracle, and what is seen. The oracle is a lake in a hill, I Ching 31, the Wooing Influence ; the activity is the stream flowing from it down into the valleys.

This oracle has double Lovers — as above so below — and the red lion restrained through refinement of strength. The dew of heaven falls onto a fiery tower. The tower is a phallic organ of speech. The Messianic dew descends, trumpeted by Gabriel and tempered by Mikael. Something significant is unfolding, transpersonally. The wavebreak of a crackling tower yet reveals to me the Well below it, and the maiden. The oracle speaks out loud — through 20, 8 and 16 — and the woman with the lion does not restrain or stifle the voice, she guides it.

His voice comes from where her womb is. A long-term sexual revolution falls into the world, reversing many ways that things were. Revolution is a watch-word of Master R, who exemplifies inner revolution. The Lovers are doubled and the Lion woman holds her ground between the sizzle of water and fire. With these thoughts comes the bulky silence of the Mountain over Mountain: It is the way of all energy to find its restful accommodation — for water to find its level.

It goes to where there is room. My first insight with the oracle was: This event has a truth of its own, needing expression. Listen to the world, not with media but with ear to the ground. My second insight is similar. When an energy explodes, it travels towards a lake where it may disperse, a room to accommodate its expansion. Do not impede its ultimate peace. Let the violent intention disperse itself. Yet trusting the camel, tie the leg! Provocation from the other side may release it again, which makes some persons habitually violent — their cages disable them.

It is wise to give a walking wound a wide berth. He does not know what he does, or what drives him. Compassion him and let him be. What matters on the stage is here today … and gone tomorrow. Cultivate perennially, the flower in the mountain. With a loving heart, the miracle is omniscient in all the atoms. This is the first of three posts , about a Tarot reading just after midsummer this year. The oracle opened up as usual a contemplation including and far transcending the strange local event which triggered it. You may not want to read it all, but dip here and there in the lake for possible echoes!

The cracks flowed richly together, like the Golden Net all over Gaia. Love the space — that means embrace it, keeping still. Let the sea of it flow through, and reflect the way of martial art to deftly step aside, forgive, give way to the force. The answer is that everywhere in life there is risk or apparent risk; and when the soul is focused, she navigates with place, time and precision. Keep thinking Golden Net and the crisscrossing delta traces in sand.

Time and space with this event in my soul gives it digestion. Digestion is alchemical — assimilation means conversion to energy — and I am reminded of Tarot Key 8 and the Heracles with Lion in a cave, which Midi Berry sent me. Master R, what is your view? Tarot Keys to reflect … my method is to shuffle the deck, wait a moment for the lake to quieten, then cut the deck with left hand and repeat three times no need to reshuffle.

This reading is with just the 22 Major Arcana. From the three piles face down, turn over the centre top card, and then the ones to the right and left. The ones to each side enhance or qualify its character. From the first card, turn over the three cards underneath it in the pile.

It contains and generates within it a new Yod or cycle. Finally, add together the numbers of Y H V H in the reading for an overview.

Consider Y H V H as sides of a pyramid: So the fifth and central card, representing the SHIN, may be seen as a liberating overview, with altitude or perspective: Here, Key12 the Hanging Man it was reversed walks contra the way of the world; also suggesting a sacrifice. The Tower cracked open. The woman contains the red lion. The lovers — twice 6 are 12 — are equilibrium. The Hanging Man on the inner plane equilibrates the pendulum at rest — the birth into earth: The Tower mirrors the Hanging Man. Come to meet or unify the male and female consciousness tumbling out. The Tower is a well.

I wondered deeply at the mirroring. The Tower in alchemy is a Grail vessel which periodically cracks shell. Nothing in nature remains static. The Hanging Man is a lake. The Tower is a lightning flash. The oracle is a relationship with the inner plane and its wisdom. But when I met up with shapely Christine and large dreadlocked Jamaican Marie I discovered what a huge difference it makes to be encouraged and to take turns at a pitch and watch each other. I did a V1 Yellow route — very pleased.

When people get together it is called a Session, and the venue is cooperatively social. Next time, take my harness and do a top-rope climb with the automatic belay. Just as it was getting a bit routine, I am through the roof again. This positions and balances much better for long reaches. My new friends try going up slabs with just their feet — palms on slab, no hold.

I tried it too. Getting a little more confident with those nasty moments which rely on vertical balance, perched on the wall. Also discovered I recover quickly from each effort and am ready to go again.

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Tired — let go into it — lovely walk at the weekend up into Quantock woods with my mother, her slow fragile pace being my opportunity to contact with the ground and flow — weightless sole of feet and hips: What will I do, what will I feel when she is gone? If you are an absolute beginner, the book also contains a link to our unique FREE page guide to tarot card meanings and 9 basic spreads for further practice.

As you go through the week, you will chain these together in a unique way, creating magick and gaining new clarity in the patterns of your everyday life. The Resurrection Engine, Book 3, has been used by many students over the last few years to discover how to explore Kabbalah through Tarot in a practical and personal way. You may also like to join your national Tarosophy Tarot Association at www. Contact Your Animal Spirit 2. The Gates of Valentine: The Palace of the Phoenix: Use Alchemy to discover the secrets of Nature 5.

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